In Germany, a third of ‘Syrian’ asylum seeker claims are false

Migrants are queuing at the entrance of the Office of Migration on Monday in Berlin Photo credit:. A4265 / _Michael Kappeler / AP

Many migrants claim to come from Syria, but do not speak a word of Arabic.

From our correspondent in Berlin

Better is, for some, do not say where they come from. “All refugees should be treated the same way”.

The German administration distinguishes indeed those who clearly qualify for asylum because they flee war particularly in Syria, and those which should be deported because they only fled misery, for example in the Balkans. “I’m not Syrian,” he grumbled. …